2016.11.09 - Class 5

US Presidential election - report and victory speech

We spend a good part of the first half of class talking about the US Presidential election results. We also watched a video report on CNN Student News and discussed different aspects of it, including vocabulary such as:

• concede / concession speech - victory speech
• projections - projections holding up (or not)
• polls
• ballot
• Congress: House of Representatives and Senate

We also reviewed your homework (p.12) and continued working with adjectives to describe character and personality, looking especially at some often used to described teenagers. Here's the list you came up with:

Positive		negative
Social Mature Friendly Open-minded Creative Trustworthy Empathetic Easy-going Responsible	sensitive	Antisocial Immature Unfriendly Narrow-minded Uncreative Untrustworthy Cruel / selfish Bad behavior (n) Irresponsible Bad-tempered Moody Violent Liar (n)

We then watched a short film on Vimeo about one teenager and discussed it using those adjectives.

The Present from Jacob Frey on Vimeo.

Concession speech

After the break, we watched CNN a bit longer in hopes of hearing Clinton's concession speech, which was scheduled for 10:30 EST. In the end, the speech didn't start until after class was already over.

Homework

• p.20 ex 1-5 (review of Chapter 1)
• p.25 ex 1-5 (Chapter 2 grammar)